Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Java is like a variant of the game of Tetris in which none of the pieces can fill gaps created by the other pieces, so all you can do is pile them up endlessly.
Steve Yegge
Good programmers invest the effort to learn how to use current practices. Not-so-good programmers just learn the buzzwords, and that’s been a software industry constant for a half century.
Boris Beizer
You can't communicate complexity, only an awareness of it.
Alan J. Perlis
Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.
Martin Fowler
Editing is a rewording activity.
Alan J. Perlis
Every language has an optimization operator. In C++ that operator is ‘//’
Anonymous
C is to programming as Latin is to literature.
Anonymous
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
Clark's law
The whole HTML validation exercise is questionable, but validating as XHTML is flat-out masochism. Only recommended for those that enjoy pain. Or programmers. I can't always tell the difference.
Jeff Atwood
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.
Cicero